Tibet and the Olympics

Over the past weeks the mass media have reported extensively about the protests that were disrupting the Olympic Torch relay in Paris, London and San Francisco. The reports were overwhelming sympathetic to the Tibetan dissidents' cause. Unfortunately there have been little if any analysis of the facts surrounding the issue. (for an alternate view, see Stockwell's http://members.tripod.com/~journeyeast/myth_and_reality.html )

On Sunday 14 Apr 2008 thousands demonstrated in Sydney in protest against the media and in support of Tibet as an integral part of China. Perhaps confirming the claim of bias, the Sydney Morning Herald did not report the event, while the Australian Chinese Daily devoted an entire front page to it. Instead, the SMH had a lengthy article on the blog anger, an event largely ignored previously, perhaps only attracted to it after Singapare PM Lee Hsien Loong's recent speech on the subject. (http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/pdf/20080411/PMLEESPEECH.pdf)